Interests

PhD, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Doctorate in Comparative Literature

RESEARCH INTERESTS

storytelling, critical media studies, digital archives, AI assisted life writing

cultural studies, immigrant story archives, world literature

memory and collective memory

autobiography and biography, memoirs, video narratives, life writing

English/American, French, German and Eastern European literatures and memory cultures

phenomenological hermeneutics, Dilthey, Ricoeur, Nancy

TEACHING

Full Professor, Saint Mary's College of California

HONORS PROGRAM, DIRECTOR

develops and manages Honors Program that cultivates excellence among high-achievening students

BOARD MEMBER/CHAIR/PRESIDENT

Global and Regional Studies, SMC

World Languages and Cultures, SMC

President, American Hungarian Educators Association

Delegate, MLA Assembly

READER and BOARD MEMBER

various scholarly journals

VOLUNTEER

teaching literacy skills in public schools for underserved children